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Panel 9: Technology, Fantasy, and Escape in Young People’s Literature

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Panel 9 (Room 158) 2:00 – 3:00 P.M.
Chair: Rick Gooding

Leanne Hooper, University of Roehampton
Travel, Teens, and Tethering: Exploring Cell Phone Use in Childhood Journeys in
Ostrich Boys and Unhooking the Moon

Phil Gough, Currently Unaffiliated
Ghost in the Machine: Displacement and Embodiment in Mary E. Pearson’s The
Adoration of Jenna Fox and The Fox Inheritance

Alethia Shih, University of California, Los Angeles
Lands Beyond Home: The Distance Between Child Protagonist and Reader in The
Phantom Tollbooth

Panel 6: Exploring Canadian Imagery and Content Related to Young People’s Texts

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Panel 6 (Room 158) 12:45 – 1:45 P.M.
Chair: Karen Taylor

Rachel Balko, University of British Columbia
Is It Canadian Enough?: Foreign-Born Winners of the Governor General’s Literary
Awards for Children’s Literature

Karen Taylor, University of British Columbia
Outsiders in Nature: Green Subjectivity of the Adolescent Protagonist in Two
Contemporary Canadian YA Novels

Rachel Yaroshuk, University of British Columbia
Fiddle & Jig: Métis Cultural Representation in Canadian Children’s Books

Panel 5: War and Survival in Children’s and YA Texts

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Panel 5 (Room 157) 12:45 – 1:45 P.M.
Chair: Rick Gooding

Akemi Aoki, Université de Strasbourg, France
No Nation: Children in War

Megan Sorenson, University of British Columbia
Authenticity from Many Voices in Hana’s Suitcase

Phoebe Li, University of British Columbia
Survival in the Wilderness – Survival of the Fittest

Panel 4: Queer Themes in Children’s and YA Texts

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Panel 4 (Room 156) 12:45 – 1:45 P.M.
Chair: Rob Bittner

Thaddeus Andracki, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Here’s to Overcoming Our Parents’ Dreams for Us”: Gendered Racializations and
“Deviance” in Two Young Adult LGBT Novels

Robert Bittner, University of British Columbia
“Why Can’t I Wear a Dress?”: Perceived Homosexuality and Non-Normative Gender
Performances in Books for Children

Hannah Dyer, University of Toronto/OISE
Queer Desire, ‘Growing-up’ and ‘Becoming’: On Alain Berliner’s Ma Vie en Rose (My
Life in Pink)

Dr. Sarah Park

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Dr. Sarah Park is an assistant professor of Library and Information Science at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her research interests include representations of the Korean diaspora in children’s and young adult literature, youth services librarianship, social justice, transracial
adoption, and Korean diasporic history. She teaches courses on children’s and young adult literature, social justice, web design, and library and information science. Her book, Diversity in Youth Literature, edited with Jamie Naidoo, is set to be released this summer by ALA Editions.

The Keynote Address she’ll be presenting at Stranger in a Strange Land is entitled Storying Adoption.

More information on Dr. Park can be found on her website.

Dr. Elizabeth Marshall

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Elizabeth Marshall is associate professor in the faculty of education at Simon Fraser University, where she teaches courses in children’s and young adult literature. She is co-editor of Rethinking Popular Culture and Media, and has published articles on the representation of North American girlhoods in children’s literature, popular culture, and women’s memoir. Dr. Marshall’s work has been published in Harvard Educational Review, Gender and Education, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, College English, Children’s Literature Quarterly, and Rethinking Schools.

The Keynote Address she’ll be presenting at Stranger in a Strange Land is entitled Global Girls and Strangers: Transnational Travel in The Nancy Drew Mysteries.

More information can be found on Dr. Marshall’s website.